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Old Jul 24, 2015 | 11:45 pm
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Originally Posted by sasohal
A little off topic, but I am Plat. Med. on Delta so I had to post it here - And to add to some AA comments a page back - I was on a quick flight from NYC-DTW on an AA CRJ seated towards the back (the AA fare was I think half what Delta was charging so had to go with the "cheaper" of the 2).

So upon touchdown, taxing up, and finally hearing the seatbelt ding, I do what I naturally do as a delta flyer, I get up and start to unload the OB, but much to my astonishment, no one else in economy got up- literally no one. I actually thought I was doing something wrong. So I slowly sat back down and just watched other passengers just sit wait. Now the first class cabin was of course all standing up and all had grabbed their bags down from the bins and once the last 1st-class passenger deplaned, the economy comfort (or what ever AA calls it) got up and grabbed their bags, and so on, until finally it was my turn.

I couldn't believe how civilized these AA passengers were. I hadn't flown AA in a couple years and of course living in southeast Michigan, Delta is where my loyalty lies, but man, it was something I will remember for a while.
Actually this has been default behavior of passengers on Delta Shuttle flights between LAX and SFO that I've been on. The aircraft are Embraer 175 operated by Compass and the passengers on board deplane as you described above.

This is in contrast to LAX-SFO flights on WN and VX which are more of the typical free-for-all.

(And what you saw in AA isn't systemwide. Deplaning on any AA flights to or from South America tend to be chaotic too.)
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